THE COLLECTION OF A GEORGIAN WOMAN READER
Currently held by Roger Treglown Rare & Antiquarian Books.
Third edition of poems; First edition of illustrations. Inscribed ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedown. Half light-blue goatskin over marbled paper boards. With ex libris of Beryl Williams on front endpaper.
In the Collection of David Oiye, Toronto
Fifth edition. Volumes 1 & 3 only. With signature ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title pages, and ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on front pastedowns. Bound in half leather over drab paper boards; black labels with gilt lettering on spine; gilt volume numbers, double rules.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh: and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90 Cheapside, London, 1820.
Private collection
First edition. Volumes 2 & 3 only located. With signature ‘Eliza Giffard’ on title pages, and ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Hall’ on front pastedowns. Bound in half leather over marbled paper boards; spine rebacked [?]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.
Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
With signature ‘Eliza Giffard’ on front pastedown, and ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire’ on title page of each volume.
[Liverpool]: Printed by J. M’Creery, Houghton-Street, Liverpool; and Sold by Vernor and Hood, No. 31, Poultry, and James Wallis, pater-Noster Row, London; Bell and Bradfute, and J. Guthrie, Edinburgh; J. and A Duncan, Glasgow; Wm. Jones, Liverpool; and the Author, at his Academy, Foregate-Street, Chester, 1800.
University of St. Andrews, Copyright Deposit Collection.
‘Eliza Giffard – Nerquis Flintshire 1807’. Purchased on 27th April, 1955.
London: Printed for Tegg and Castleman, 122, St. John’s Street, West Smithfield, B. Crosby and Co. Stationers Court, Champante and Whitrow, Aldgate, Howard and Evans, Long Lane, Wilmot and Hill, Borough, T. Hughes, Queen’s Head Passage, and T. Ostell, Ave Maria Lane, [not after 1804]
University of Pennsylvania. Kislak Center for Special Collections – Singer-Mendenhall Collection.
Signature ‘Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807’ on front pastedown.
Two volumes.
Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson: Sold by J. Fletcher, in the Turle; and J. Robson, New Bond-Street, London, 1790.
NOT PHYSICALLY LOCATED – Subscription copy.
Listing on p.xv of Subscribers, “Mrs. Giffard, Nerquis, N.W.”
London: Printed at the Minerva-Press for Lane, Newman, and Co., Leadenhall-Street, 1805.
Special Collections, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Binding: Blue paper-covered boards; manuscript numbering on spines. “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire” on title-pages and front pastedowns. Volumes 1 and 3 only present; volume 2 missing. Acquired as part of the Beverly Rogers Rare Book Collection, 2023.
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The tenth edition, considerably enlarged with several hundred additional articles.
London: Printed by J. Crowder, Warwick-Square, for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1800.
From the Collection of Andrew Honey.
Binding: Blue paper-covered boards with buff/cream paper spine. Notes in pencil to both sides of front flyleaf listing some of the contents. “T.a.” in ink at head of recto of front flyleaf. “Maria Eleanora Giffard | Nerquis 1807” in ink at head of title-page. “Maria Eleanora Giffard (1807) | Nerquis” in ink at head of p.1. “Tablet | of | Memory” in ink at head of spine.
1 vocal score (112 p.)
London: Printed for Harrison & Co…, [ca. 1785]
Oxford University. Bodleian Library.
Binding: Half mottled calf with marbled paper boards. Provenance name: Giffard, Eliza. Provenance note: Inscribed: “Eliza Giffard – Nerquis, Flintshire – 1807”
London: Sold by G. Nicol, Pall-Mall; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1793.
Silent World Foundation Library
Subscriber’s copy, inscribed on title-page: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807”, and lettered in another hand on the cover “Mrs. Giffard”. Note: subscriber’s list [p.xi] lists both ‘Mrs. Gifford, Nerquis’ and ‘Miss Gifford’.
London: Printed for T. Becket, 81, Pall Mall., 1805.
Eton College.
Ownership inscription on title-page: Maria Eleanora Giffard (Nerquis) 1807. Contemporary light blue paper over stiff card boards; spine covered in cream paper; printed spine label; deckled edges.
In six volumes
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754-62.
University of Texas, Austin. Harry Ransom Center.
HRC cop. 1 [ATR] [STR]: v. 1-2 inscribed: Eliza Giffard, 1807; armorial bookplate of Eliza Giffard [?]; was Aitken: Am/H882/762h/v. 1-2/Stark; v. [3-4] armorial bookplates of Phil: Baker and John George Mogg; v. [4] ms. note relating to Princess Elizabeth’s imprisonment in the Tower (tipped in); was Aitken: Am/H882/759h/v. 1-2/Stark; v. [5-6] inscribed: Eliza Giffard, 1807; armorial bookplate of Eliza Giffard [?]; was Aitken: Am/H882/754h/v. 1-2/Stark. Cop. 2 imperfect: v. 3 wanting; v. 2: illegible inscription; v. [4]: inscribed: Eliza Giffard; v. 5-6: armorial bookplate of Biddulph, Ledbury; inscribed: N. [?] Biddulph; v. [4] inscribed: Eliza Giffard; armorial bookplate of Eliza Giffard [?]
Two volumes
[London]: Printed for the author at Mr. Welker’s, [ca. 1777-1779]
Yale University. Music Library Special Collections.
Title page of Book 1, copy 2 signed: “Miss Jeffries, 1790. Title page of Book 1, copy 2 signed: “Eliza Giffard. Nerquis. Flintshire, 1807.” Book 1 only; lacks p. 1-4, 39-40. Bound together with Guida di musica / James Hook.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-row; and James Cundee, Ivy-lane, 1806.
New York University, Special Collections.
Special Collections copy has inscription: “Eliza Giffard Nerquis, Flintshire 1807” on title-page.
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